Sentences with phrase «medication than morphine»

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Methadone is an inexpensive opioid medication that targets the same receptors in the brain as opioid drugs, but is much longer - lasting than heroin or morphine.

Roughly 15 % of people suffer relentless, long - term itch, often caused by diseases and medications; terminally ill cancer patients, for example, often experience such severe whole - body itch in response to morphine that many choose to live in pain rather than take the medication.

If you're on medications like steroids, dopamine, or opioid painkillers (like morphine), you could also get a lower - than - normal reading.